Very interesting capture!

Very interesting fruit? Looks a lot like our Lychee in Hawaii. But, much bigger. Nature sure has a lot to offer. Nice shot. Aloha

Got to say and I must agree it does look very much like our Lychee Fruit here in Queensland Australia..I would be sitting under that tree right now and guarding all the fruit just for me.. We have one growing in our yard now..should get our first fruit at the end of this year..they are so sweet and juicy when ripe..flesh on ours is a milky white with a brownish seed in the middle.. This fruit tree looks to be a very healthy one..you lucky thing if that is what it is?????

Great shot of the unknown fruit tree!

Whatever they are, they're full of color and detail!!

Very unusual fruit, I've never seen them. Their certainly lots of them though, at first I thought they were apricots til I took a closer view.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litchi_chinensis Could this ? Great capture , Dana !

Strange and kinda otherworldly fruits. Great shot! ;)

So how do they taste ? OH - I think that is one of the geneticly created gum ball trees - Ya thats it :) LOL - No wait I see simalar items at many resterants these days - Its one of those mystery foods ! NO wait - oh never mind :) Cool shot !!!!!

What a strange looking fruit. Very nice capture.

bonne photo!!

I think these are dogwoods; I posted a shot of some of these a couple of years ago and that's what Andrea said. Great capture of this very burgeoning tree!

LOL! they look like Captain Crunch, Crunch Berries. But bigger, maybe they shrink when they dry them. ;D Fantastic capture! Never seen a fruit like that either.

Sure don't want to be the landscaper that's going to be cleaning up after! Colorful shot Dad!

BEAUTIFUL SHOT LOOK LIKE A GOOD FRUIT

I think they are Lychee's. Lovely colours, they look scrummy!!!!

Quite interesting. Lychees ? I dont know.

These are Korean Dogwood seed pods -- Dogwood Kousa Rather common in Connecticut, but not native.

looks like Litchies or not, have to go and see at wikipedia.. anyway wonderful fruity, sweet and juicy!

Very beautiful capture.

Great looking fruit looks like a Lychee,dare you to try one and report back.

Wow...very unusual!! My first thought was Lychee, but seeing that it's in Massachusetts, I doubt it, LOL. Oh, lychee...like Kym's cave said, I'd be sitting there guarding all the fruit for myself! We had fresh lychee/lichi in Florida. SO, SO good...pale flesh, rather like a grape, but even sweeter...and a slippery brown seed in the middle. MMMM...I miss those!

The comments above are probably correct as to the identity of the fruit, Dana. As for me, I've never seen this species before, although the leaves look like they belong on a peach tree. Excellent capture of it though, looks almost like Xmas decorations.

Thanks to Stella, Kym, Mario, Priska,Alan and Holly, the consensis is that this is a Lychee - Litchi chinensis. Mario also left the Wikipedia address in his comment above. Thanks for all of your comments. Dana

Oh how nice to see them on the tree, I just love Litchees, you can have the fresh here, when it is season and the canned version is good too!

WOW! wonderful shot!!

outstanding capture!!!

This is super! I've never seen the trees that these belong to, and I haven't seen them so large either. Well, they look large. At first, when I looked at the picture, zoomed, I thought they might have been something totally different, but then, I've only seen such fruits in a grocery store. They seemed somehow smaller than these. I really like this shot. The details are amazing; they look like the seeds of Darth Vader's Death Star! Ha! You know a picture is good if it inspires a Star Wars reference!

so full :-) nice capture

a wonderful picture! The sheets are from the Cornus kousa. I have this tree in my garden. The fruits have the size of small cherries. How large are the fruits of this tree? http://www.gartendatenbank.de/wiki/cornus-kousa I unfortunately found no side in English language.